Wednesday, June 21. 2006
Compiz on AIGLX

For those who don't know: Compiz is a combined window/composite manager that was released together with xgl earlier this year. aiglx is another approach to get 3D-accelerated Desktops on Linux/Xorg.
I've merged the appropriate (very experimental stuff, big fat warning!) gentoo packages into my overlay. For all non-gentooers: You are on your own, but you can grab Kristian's patches here. Update: Kristian told me that Fedora Rawhide users are also lucky.
You can get it with
svn co http://svn.hboeck.de/xgl-overlay
(It's still called xgl-overlay, although it should probably be named »various-funky-x-stuff« or so, but I was too lazy to rename it)
To install it, check it out like above, put the path into your PORTDIR_OVERLAY-var in make.conf. Then re-merge libdrm, mesa, xorg-server and compiz (all ~x86). You can also merge experimental libcm/metacity-packages (metacity with 3d-effects), therefore add xcomposite to your USE-flags and merge metacity-2.15.5.
To start compiz on aiglx (that means »normal« X):
LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace --strict-binding move resize minimize place decoration wobbly cube rotate scale switcher zoom &
gnome-window-decorator
(replace plugins with anything you want, the LIBGL-var and strict-binding are required for running in aiglx, this should be automatically detected soon)
For metacity use:
USE_WOBBLY=1 metacity --replace
As before, there is still a package for xgl, so you now can try both.
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Thursday, June 15. 2006
Planet Karlsruhe
Seit einigen Tagen am Start: Planet Karlsruhe, was ausgebaut werden soll zu einer möglichst vollständigen Sammlung Karlsruher Blogs.
Die bisher eingetragenen haben sich entweder bei mir gemeldet oder ihr Blog steht unter Creative Commons. Frei lizensierte Blogs trage ich ungefragt ein, alle anderen mögen mir bitte per Mail mitteilen, wenn sie aufgenommen werden möchten.
Die bisher eingetragenen haben sich entweder bei mir gemeldet oder ihr Blog steht unter Creative Commons. Frei lizensierte Blogs trage ich ungefragt ein, alle anderen mögen mir bitte per Mail mitteilen, wenn sie aufgenommen werden möchten.
Sunday, June 11. 2006
Linux 4k intros: source release
Just a very short note, we managed to finish our gpn5-project for creating an asmsource to find the entry-points of preloaded libraries.
More doc and details to follow, just get it for now: smallelf-0.1.tar.bz2
More doc and details to follow, just get it for now: smallelf-0.1.tar.bz2
Saturday, June 10. 2006
GPN Tag 1+2
Erster Rückblick auf zwei bislang recht erfolgreiche Tage GPN5. Nebst einigen netten Begegnungen lief mein Workshop zu Linux & 4k-Intros sehr gut, nach einer Einführung über momentane Methoden auf unterschiedlichen Systemen arbeiteten wir in kleiner Gruppe relativ effektiv und ich geh im Moment davon aus, dass wir bis zum Ende einiges an funktionierendem Code fertig haben.
Mein (gnadenlos überzogener) Lightning-Talk zu XGL & AIGLX kam ganz gut an (Slides ODP, Slides PDF), danach gab es noch einen Haufen anderer recht spannender Vorträge (falls ich es noch richtig zusammenkriegen, Dvorak, Gameboy-Hacking, Cross-Site-Authentication, chinesisches Schach, Webhosting-Anwendungen, Spam in Blogs, qemu).
Gerade Lesung von Daniel Kulla, DON'T SPREAD THE WORD - CUT-UP & CODE!
Achja: Das ganze hier ist erfreulich WM-frei. Fotos gibt's von mir diesmal keine, weil Canon meine Cam gerade auf Garantie repariert.
Mein (gnadenlos überzogener) Lightning-Talk zu XGL & AIGLX kam ganz gut an (Slides ODP, Slides PDF), danach gab es noch einen Haufen anderer recht spannender Vorträge (falls ich es noch richtig zusammenkriegen, Dvorak, Gameboy-Hacking, Cross-Site-Authentication, chinesisches Schach, Webhosting-Anwendungen, Spam in Blogs, qemu).
Gerade Lesung von Daniel Kulla, DON'T SPREAD THE WORD - CUT-UP & CODE!
Achja: Das ganze hier ist erfreulich WM-frei. Fotos gibt's von mir diesmal keine, weil Canon meine Cam gerade auf Garantie repariert.
Saturday, June 3. 2006
ThePirateBay - some updates

It seems to me that this case can turn into a publicity desaster for the MPAA and the swedish anti piracy organizations. gulli has a longer article in german.
Chaosradio has a long podcast-interview with one of the TPB guys (english), which also turns out some interesting things, for example the question why they took the dna from the arrested activists (for possible copyright violations through the internet, you surely need the dna).

I very much like the actions of those swedish groups, I think more people should act like them. I assume that a vast majority of the people in some way do filesharing of copyrighted content, but just a small minority of them fights for their right to do so.
Update, Saturday 11h: They are back online.
Posted by Hanno Böck
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Thursday, June 1. 2006
Short tip: License-data with planet
planet is a famous python software to combine the feeds of various blogs (or other feed-sources) to one website. It's used by various free software projects, organizations etc.
While thinking about creating a planet karlsruhe, I thought about possible licensing/copyright problems, in theory you would have to ask everyone you aggregate. As there are many blogs using free or semi-free licenses like FDL or Creative Commons that at least allow re-distributing unchanged content if you stick with the license, adding license-data would make it perfectly legal to add those feeds without asking.
planet is already flexible enough to do this, as you can just add additional variables. Change the config.ini to something like this:
[https://blog.hboeck.de/feeds/atom.xml]
name = Hanno Böck
license_name = Creative Commons by-sa
license_link = http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Add some Code to the template:
<TMPL_IF channel_license_name>
<TMPL_IF channel_license_link><a href="<TMPL_VAR channel_license_link ESCAPE="HTML">"></TMPL_IF>
<TMPL_VAR channel_license_name ESCAPE="HTML">
<TMPL_IF channel_license_link></a></TMPL_IF>
</TMPL_IF>
And you're done.
While thinking about creating a planet karlsruhe, I thought about possible licensing/copyright problems, in theory you would have to ask everyone you aggregate. As there are many blogs using free or semi-free licenses like FDL or Creative Commons that at least allow re-distributing unchanged content if you stick with the license, adding license-data would make it perfectly legal to add those feeds without asking.
planet is already flexible enough to do this, as you can just add additional variables. Change the config.ini to something like this:
[https://blog.hboeck.de/feeds/atom.xml]
name = Hanno Böck
license_name = Creative Commons by-sa
license_link = http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Add some Code to the template:
<TMPL_IF channel_license_name>
<TMPL_IF channel_license_link><a href="<TMPL_VAR channel_license_link ESCAPE="HTML">"></TMPL_IF>
<TMPL_VAR channel_license_name ESCAPE="HTML">
<TMPL_IF channel_license_link></a></TMPL_IF>
</TMPL_IF>
And you're done.
Posted by Hanno Böck
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The Pirate Bay beschlagnahmt

Pikant daran: The Pirate Bay ist nicht nur eine »gewöhnliche« Filesharing-Site, sondern eng verbunden mit der schwedischen Gruppe Piratbyrån, die politisch mit Protestaktionen und Berichten gegen Copyrights und Patente arbeitet. Deren Server, welcher wohl in den gleichen Räumen stand, wurde nebenbei gleich mit beschlagnahmt.
Die Aktion gegen Pirate Bay ist somit weit mehr als ein Schlag gegen die »Raubkopierer« und Warez-Szene. Es ist ein Angriff auf die politische Arbeit einer Gruppe, die frech und unverhohlen ihre politische Arbeit mit direkter Unterstützung für Filesharing-Aktivitäten verband.
Gulli weiss mehr. Der Onlineshop von PirateBay und Piratbyrån ist weiterhin online. Da kann man sich die schicken Logos runterladen und Merchandising-Material bestellen.
Posted by Hanno Böck
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